Come on, you guys are way more powerful and influential than you were 20 years ago (which is exciting!) What’s that Spiderman line? With great power, comes great responsibility? Words matter. They travel farther & faster than they did a decade ago. We should exercise care.
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Maybe we've become more influential, but most of the problem here is another change that has happened simultaneously: the acceleration in the rate of new taboos.
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How do we prove that that is true?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
Watch some comedy routines from the 70’s. I believe you’ll quickly see a number of offensive routines far beyond what we’d accept today. One measure of changing sensibilities. Generally I agree with the changes, but I think sometimes about myself that I’ve become less tolerant.
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What does that tell me though? What if a person from the 1960s watched a comedy routine from the 1920s? How would we know that the delta of offensiveness for us watching something from the 1970s is more or less than that?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
There’s whole categories of jokes in the 1970s that I would have thought funny/appropriate that now I see as just offensive. Generally relating to identity politics. I think topical discussion of the same subjects now far more edited by everyone.
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But Paul’s contention is that the *rate* of new taboos is accelerating, not that in some cases, this generation might see some topics as offensive in a way that they weren’t a generation ago.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
To me that’s the rate he’s talking about. All of us empathize with a far wider concept of human experience. We’re quick to take the side of the underprivileged—a great thing. I just think the trade off is everyone self sensors.
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What if data shows we are all communicating a lot more with everyone, all the time, and are speaking so much in so many unpredictable & evolving social contexts that that *feels* like there are more taboos, when in fact we are exchanging a greater, rather, than smaller # of ideas
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
I’m thinking of Marc Andreessen and how I could barely keep up with his feed. Why did he back off Twitter? I think social blowback against a cloddish comment had much to do with it.
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Neither of us knows definitively why he left. I had heard he was just addicted to it and it was interfering with his IRL job but that is just an unfounded rumor and what you are saying is also speculative.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Yeah, you’re completely correct. I’m drawing lines based on my memory of the timing.
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